Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1922, Page 1

Che Casper Daily | Weather Forecast Fair tonight and probably Saturday, except rain or possibly snow in ex- treme west portion. Somewhat warm- er tonight. Colder in extreme north portion Saturday. Crihane | =, | VOLUME Vi THREE OAYS SET ASIDE FOR HEARI Minor Civil Actions Are First to Be Heard by Judg: CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1922. GRIMINK: DOCKET FOR BISTAIGT COURT 15 LIGHT Brown and Heavy List Will Follow; First Jury Cases Set for Next Monday NG OF ALL GASES ISAFE IS OPEN, $14,000 GONE A heavy civil docket but one of the lightest criminal} OMAHA, Nebd., March 10—A safe in dockets which has faced the opening of the spring term of court here in many years was set down for trial by Judge C. O. Brown yesterday. The criminal docket is made up of 12 cases, all of which are of minor importance, no serious] 4 snopmen cases of any kind having been reported during the winter and $15,000 is said to be miming. months. ‘The minor civil cases are being heard by Judge Brown today. The first call for a jury has been issued tor Monday. Several civil cases will be heard by the jury after which the criminal cases will be on tap. ‘The cases in both civil and criminal divisions of the district court which will be heard by the jury are scheduled for hearing on the following hours and dates: %. CIVIL JURY CASES. Tuesday, March 14. H. H. Adams vs. J. W. McKim, 10 o'clock a. m. ‘A. F. Eamonds vs. George Tasiopu- Jos, 11 o'clock a. m. . Cheyenne Fiver Oil company vs. Cleveland Oil company, 1:30 o'clock, Dp. m. Jack Cordell va Jim Quinlivan, 3 o'clock p. m. ‘Tuesday, March 14. George Archambault va. Pat Royce, 9 o'clock a. m. Vv. E. Twist. Jr. vs. John Brollier, 10 o'clock a m - CASES. “Tuesday, Marth 14. . he “Stato of Wyoming vs. Lacile ‘West, 1:30 o'clock 3, m. ‘The State of Wy.ming vs. Samuel Shove, 3-o'clock p. mi. ‘The State of Wyoming vs. C. Wal- lace, 4 o'clock p. m. ‘The City of Casper vs. J. D. Schaef- er, 5 o'clock p. m. * Wednesday, March 15. ‘The City of Casper vs. T. R. White, ‘9 o'clock a. m. f ‘The-State of Wyoming vs. J. W- Ausenbaugh, 9:15 o'clock a, m. The State of Wyoming vs. Chris Angeles, 9:30 o'clock a. m. the office of W. H. Sanford, treasurer! of the Union Pacific railroad, in down-' town Omaha, was found open today, According toa. report to the police and a 's payroll of between $14,000 ‘SANDBAR MUST WALK STRAIGHT AND KARROW, HISBET’S EDICT “The Sandbar must be clean in five days.” ‘This edict went forth this after- noon from Chief of Police Alexan der Nisbet to all denizens of that district who may come under the classification of law violators. Further than the simple zynounce- ment of the proposed clean-up, which is held highly significant, the Officers of the police department, chief had no comment to offer. ‘The statement included no accusations or threats against particular ones but stands out as a blanket indict ment of those who know them- selves to be Jaw violators and can escape the penalty by immediate ac- ton, it is learned, today delivered warn- ings to somm suspected of harbor- ing or encouraging vice conditions. Village Doctor Locked Up For Spree, Town Ill rans 4 | | only physician in jail and a prevalence of disease in the village, residents of Lockridge, Iowa, have stormed Jef- ferson county officials for a reprieve or something to get the doctor out. ‘The physician is P. J. Shortock. He is serving four weeks at Fairfield after having been fund guilty of intoxica- tion. Dr. Shorlock’s casé probably will be before Governor Kendall in a day or two. he sheriff tad no power to re- lease the physician and called the gov ernor on the long distance telephone. He was told the governor will act quickly upon an application for the physician's release if four county of- ficials joined in the petition. Marion Fete Is Postponed MARION, Ohio, March 10.—At the! personal request of President Harding the centennial celebration which was to have been held here in June has been postponed until July. Members of the committee in charge of the cele- bration today received a letter from President Harding in which ho ex- pressed a desire to attend but stated he would be unable to do so until July. U. S. APPEAL IN COAL MINE CRISIS FUTILE Mex Governor ° Resigns. Post In Rebel State MEXICO CITY, March 10.—(By The Associated Press.)—Governor Miujica’ has resigned as governor of the state of Michoacan, according to reports re- ‘Tho State of Wyoming vs. Chris Pa- Bamis, 10 o'clock am. ‘The State ot Wyoming vs. er, 10:15 o'clock a. m- ‘The State of Wyoming vs. Charles Carl Mal- POLICE CHIEF SUSPENDED IN “LIQUOR RAIDS HUDSON, N. Y., March 10—Police Chief John Cruise, Jr., was under sus- pension, 20 saloons and hotels were closed and state troopers had assumed police duty here today as the result of raids by more than a dozen prohi- bition agents. ‘Ten me nwere arrested, but City Judge May refused to hold them on the ground that specific charges were not preferred. | ‘The Hudson public safety commis-| th of Chief Another Broker - Goes to Wall NEW YORK, March 10.—An invol- ed today against the Russel Securities company, steck brokers. The petition made no mention of assets or liabilities. ceived here which add that he took this step under pressure from the state legislature. Dispatches from Morelia, the capital tell of continued disturbances and un- rest throughout the state. Bullfighter Is Gored by Animal MEXICO CITY, March 10—(By The ‘Associated Press)—When Luis Fres, leading matador, was seriously gored: ‘during a benefit corrida yesterday, Dr. ‘William J. Mayo, American surgeon, ‘who is visiting Mexico City, was re- quested by President Obregon to ex- amine Freg. Dr. Mayo was given an ovation by the crowd when he re- turned from the infirmary. Freg may die, the main artery tm his left thigh having been severed. TEXAS DIGGING OUT OF SNOW AMARILIO, Texas, March 10.—This section was digging itself out today from one of the most severe snow- storms of retent years. The entire panhandle of Texas, eastern New Mex- ico and western Oklahoma was cov- ered by 2 snowfall which ranged from four to seven inches in depth. The lowest at Amarillo was 22 above with snowfall 6% inches. The storm had passed this morning and with clear weather and a rising’ temperature the snow melted rapidiy. ROCK SHOWERS STARTLE TOWN CHICO, Calif, March 10.—Show- ers of rocks that fall “from the clouds” on a warehouse here have baffled the police, neighbors and various officials. and unofficial in- veetigators. Today J. W. Charge, owner of the warehouse, posted the offer of a re- “ward of $200 to the person revealing the source of the rocks. While the town marpha! and & committee of newspaper men and others were examining thd corrugat- ed roof yesterday, 4 shower of large smooth rocks fell, sending the in- vestigators scurrying for cover. pute Held by Un \Little Hope of Adjustment of Scale Dis- ion Leaders; Pol- icy Committee to Meet INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 10.—Hope of a nation-wide coal strike being averted by the government’s appeal for the operators and miners meeting in a wage conference seemed to have vanished today among officials of the United Mine Workers of America on account of the continued refusal of some operators to meet with the miners to negotiate an in- teratate wage ment. Union offictals, er, refrained from any announcement on the fail- ure plans, but it was indicated that imto session before April 1, with all questions relating to the pros- pective strike. The personnel of the committee is virtually completed by the committee. In addition the eom- mittee includes the international offi- cials and the members of the execu- tive board, which is now in session here. ‘The union offictals were optimistic that public opinion will be with them in the controversy, owing to the de- fiant attitude adopted by some of the operators in refusing to meet with them, union officials said. ‘The insurgent movement of IMlinois miners officials is pot yet viewed with alarm by the union officials here for they contitnued to make the positive assertion that no single state wage agreements would be made by any district. Yet it ‘was expected that when the policy committee is called into session, that his question would be brought up for early decision. Frank Farrington, the Illinois, presi- dent, and eight other Illinois men are members of the committee, and his that they had a majority within the ‘committee. WYOMING VOTE ON STRIKE WITHHELD. CHEYENNE; Wy., March 10— Counting of the ballots of Wyoming locals of the United Mine Workers of ‘America, cast in a referendum to as- certain the sentiment of the unions regarding a strixe April 1, should the coal operators not meet the demand of the miners, was completed at head- quarters here of District 22, (Wyo- ming), this afternoon, but announce- ment of the result was withheld. The abstract of the referendum has been forwarded to international headquar- ters at Indianapolis and the result will be announced there. BILLINGS, Mont., March 10.—Rep- } resentatives of all local unions in dis- Others standing on the street at {trict No. 27, United Mine Workers of the time declared the rocks seemed to come straight from the clouds. ‘America, embracing Montana, and North Dakota expect to end their pres- ‘Those employed in the building [ent session here by Saturday evening. said that the mysterious bombard- }The convention is giving its attention ments of the roof had been occurr- ing periodically for three weeks. te internal organization questions re- (Continued on rage Four) OTTUMWA, March 10.—With theit| morning. Pipeline Broken in Four Places, Doors Unhinged, Farni- ture Upset SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal.. March 10.—An earthquake severe enough to break the pipeline of the Union Oil company in four places, was felt here at 9:22 a. m. today. The shock lasted 30 seconds, PORTEVILLE, Cal, March 10.— Residents here were awakened about 3:20 o'clock this morning by an earth- quake which rattled windows, moved doors off their hinges and threw fur- niture around. People rushed into the streets but no damage was reported. BAKERSFIELD, Cal, March 10.— One of the heaviest earth tremors here in “years was felt at 323 this Several business houses re- ported that their clocks, operated by telegraph, stopped near the 3:30 o'clock mark. FRESNO, Cal, March 10—An earthquake shock was felt here at 325 this morning but no damage was done. LOS ANGELES, March 10.—A light earthquake shock was felt here at 327 o'clock this morning. The tremor lasted but a few seconds and no dam- age has been reported, ST. LOUIS, March 10.—The seismo- graph of St. Louis university today registered an earthquake believed to be about 4,000 miles in a southeast- erly direction. Records of the tre mors began at 5:17 a. m, and contin- ued until 5.51. CHICAGO, March 10.—The setsmo- graph of the United States weather burean early today recorded an earth tremor sharply pronounced at 5:37 a m.. lasting about three mintites. It was about 1,200 miles southwest, prob- ably in old Mexico, officials said. Ths first waves were recorded at 5:32 a, m. and ceased at Schedule for Army Training Camps Is Fixed SAN FRANCISCO, March 10.—A schedule of training caus for offi- cera and enlisted men of the Organized Reserves and the Citizens Military training campg of the Ninth Corps Area issued today at the presitio by Major General Charles G, Morton, corps area commander, provides for training for approximately 5,000 men. There will be three organized re- serve camps as follows: Monterey, August 13 to 27, 1,000 of- ficers and men. Camp Lewis, Washington, July 9 to 23, 1,000 officers and men. Fort Douglas, Utah, July 9 to 23, 1,- 000 officers.and men. _ Citizens Military training camps to provide training for 2,000 men will be opened as follows: ‘The Presidio, San Francisco July 6 to August 4, 960 students. Fort Scott, July 6 t August 4, appll- cants fr cast artillery training. CALIFORNIA TOWNS JARRED BY EARTHQUAKES CHICAGO MAN FALLS j HEIR T American Citizenshi, yer on Being Inform. ; to Name; No b * pe Me 2, ‘e for Any c O BIG EARLDOM vtest Title in World, Declares Law- rh at Prefix Has Been Added Change - CHICAGO, March 10.—(By The Associated Press.)—-Cyril Woodward Clubley Arm- strong, self-made Chicago lawyer whose struggle for a living has been only moderately successful, today was informed that he is sole heir to an English earldom, but the news had little effect on him for he calmly informed newspaper reporters that he already possessed the greatest title in the world—that of American citizen-——and desired no other. Mr, Armstrong received a communication which had been sent te friends of his by the consular department in response to queries from relatives in India, asking that he be located. He produced many lettors and docu ments to prove that he was the man sought, but saia he knew nothing of the title he is supposed to have in- herited, for he became separated from his family when a child and had work- ed his way up to membership in the bar through night schools. Previousty he sold newspaper sub- scriptions for a living, worked on Canadimn farms and finalty became a reporter on the Quincy, Illinois, Whig Journal. The letter asking that Mr. Arm- strong be traced was written by Orran Phoneson, British vicecounsul in charge at Nairobi, East Africa, to the state department at Washington. fallen heir to an earldom, that Cyril was the immediate heir and that his younger brother, Captain St John Shelverton was seeking Cyril. ‘Tho letter was forwarded by Washington to Mayor P. J. O'Briem. of Quincy, who located Armstrong in Chicago. “I know nothing of the title,” sald Armstrong today, “but I do know that Iam the Armstrong sought. If the of a title prove correct—well T'll crogs that bridge when I come to it I came to this country, because T wanted to become an American citizen, fought my way up to @ posi- tion of respect in this community and {t will always be foremost in my mind that I hold the greatest title in the world—that of American citizen. ‘This is a bad day for any, other title) and I have no desire to change. “My father’s name was, I think, William George Armstrong. He died when I was so young that I don't re- member it. I had two younger broth- ers—William Lawrence and Captain St. John Shelverton. My mother re- married and St John took his step- father’s name. ‘When I was about 9 years old, my undle, Lawrence Hen: Clubley ‘Armstrong, a noted engineer, took me to England from India where I was born about 1880. I went to school at St. Manks, Windsor, Eng- jand, and Quernmore House at Brom- ley. I didn't make much progress in my studies, so my uncle sent me to Canada when I was sixteen. I work- ed on a farm near Norwich, Ontario, for two years and later became sub- scription solicitor for a newspaper. I came to the United States then, going to work as a cub reporter in Quincy when I was about 21. “T determined to do better and went to night school, finally being admitted (Continued on Pagg Four) ‘CARGO BLAST KILLS FIFTEEN CONSTANTINOPLE, March 10. — (By The Acccinied Press).—Fifteen of the crew of the bolshevik transport Gorki were killed and many wounded when the ship’s cargo of hand gren- ades exployed at Trebizond, on the Black sea. The explosion also did some damage to the town, where great quantities of munitions have been re- cetved lately from Russia. ‘Trebizond is in Asiatic Turkey and the reference to the movement of munitions from Russia would indicate that the Turkish nationalist army was being supplied from that source. BELGRADE, March 10.—(By The JAssociated Press).—Foreign Mintis- ter Ninchitchin iniermed parliament yesterday that he had received assur- ances from the Italian government of. an energetic and prompt settle- ment .of the Flume incident which ITALY PLANS TO RESTORE PEACE Fight to Finish in Textile Strike Is Plan of Workers PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 10.—(By The Associated Press.)—The Rhode Island! tex- tile strike now closing its seventh week has developed into a war of attrition. opinion expressed today by representatives of both manufacturers and workers. “We will fight it out on these lines if it takes all summer,” said William H. Derrick of the Amalgamated Textile Workers, head of the strike organization in the Pawtuxet valley, where more than one-third of the 18,000 operatives idle in the state are originally employed. Derrick announced his objective to bet a 48-hour week, no reduction in wages and no discrimination against strikers returning to work. Derrick claims that the Pawtuxet valley strikers could carry on tdefi-| nitely without work. -Seven soup kitchens in as many mil villages feed thousands of strikers daily. Contributions continue to come in steadily from the outside, he says. The strikers continue to dwell im houses owned by the mills. Strike| headquarters in Arctic have been} Jeased for a year. Representatives of the mill owners responded that the expenses of the) free soup kitchens were three times! the income of the strike fund daily, that hangers-on wero being fed while legitimate workers in many cases were) not, and that only a small group de-| sired to enter on a fight to the finish with the mils. Mbny, they said, wanted to go to work again but were) afreta of the “bludgeon and black | list.” would involve also definite and com- plete execution of the treaty of Ra- pailo, including the evacuation of the third zone of Datmatia by Italy. The Jugd-Slav government, he add- | ed, would make no protest to the al- lied powers providing the Italian promises were carried out. This is the “DRY’ OFFICER IS CONVICTED MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 10— ‘Thomas A. Delaney and Joseph Ray, former federal prohibition officers, were found guilty today by\a fedéral court jury on two indictments charg- Ing conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. The jurors argued all night and agreed at 7:15 this morning. Help Wanted! ARE YOU OUT OF WORK? DO YOU WANT A JOB? The Casper Daily Tribune Realizes your need and throws its advertising columns open to you without charge. Until further notice “QGITUA- TION WANTED” advertise- ments of it over 20 words will be run HOUT CHARGE one time in this paper. Bring your ad to the Trib- une office. LET US HELP You in Washington | ALLOCATION OF « It} stated that Armstrong recently had | RADIO L ENCTHS _ IS PROJECTED Government Control of Commercialized WASHINGTON, March 10. conference made public today. ‘The recommendations do not pro vide for government control of recetv- fing stations, which Secretary Hoover has said have increased into the hun-| @reds of thousands in the last few months. Amateur transmitting sta- tions under the committne’s propos- als, would be given exclusive use of| wave lengths from 150 to 200 meters! and share with technical and train- ing schools wave lengths of from 200 to 275 meters. Other recommendations are that! wave lengths below 6,000 meters) | should in a general way be reserved! |for “radio telephone service but that those wave lengths which have be- service within this range, such as 8. O. 8. signals, shall be retained.” The committee's report expresses telephone may ultimately keep tho| whole range from zero to 6,000 me- ters.” The committees further urge that the time period assigned to the dif- ferent transmitting stations for the various services placed under the| control of the commerce departments and also that the radio telephone be accorded the status of a public utility. The recommendations, {t was an- nounced, have been transmitted to in- terested organizations and companies for consideration and the full con-| ference will meet again in two or| three weeks to formulate its final re-| port, come fixed in service for telegruphic| | Wireless Urged; All Amateurs and Schools Would Be Recognized -—Allocation of twenty wave lengths among the various classes of wireless telephony {senders ard government control of establishment of all com- |mercial wireless transmitting telephone stations are recom- mended by the three committees of the government radio safety broadcasting exclusive, 285 to 5; technical and training schools shared with amateurs, 2175 to 200; amateur, exclusive, 150 to 200 and shared with techn and training schools, reserved below, 150. —_ HERO OF CIVIL WAR DIES HERE Frank B. Gillespie, One of Last Casper Survivors of War of Rebellion, Claimed. Frank B. Gillespie died yesterday at a local hospital. He was 78 years old and a veteran of the civil war, and was severety wounded in the shoulder dur- ing Sherman's march to the sea. His remains will be laid beside those of his wife who died only a couple weeks ago, and with whom he had lived for 55 years. less telephone, the committees find, warrants the separation of 20 wave frands. The committees recommend-| ed that priority first be given broad-| casting be divided into priorities in| this rotation. Government, educational) and public, private broadcasting in-} cluding entertainment, news, etc., and finally toll broadcasting. In addition to the wave lengths of| 150 and 275 meters for the amateurs, additional wave lengths might be as-| signed to them for some opportunity in experimental work. The amateurs, | under the recommendations, wouid| arrange between themselves as to the! division of their wave bands between different varieties of amateur work. ‘The wave allocations follow: Trans-oceanic radio telephone ex- periments, non-exclusive, 6,000 to 5,-| 000 meters; fixed service radio tele-| Phony, non-exclusive, 3,300 to 2,850; mobile service, non-exclusive, 2,650 to 2,500; government broadcasting, non-| exclusive, 2,050 to 1,850; fixed station, non-exclusive, 1,650 to 1,550; aircraft| radio telephony and telegraphy, ex-| clusive, 1,550 to 1,500; government| and public broadcasting, 1,500 to 1,-| 080; radio beacons, exclusive, 1,050 to| 950; aireraft radio telephony and telegraphy, exclusive, 950 to 850; ra-| dio compass, exclusive, 850 to 875;| 700 miles inland 750 to 700; mobile radio telephony, non-exclusive, 750 to| 650; mobile radio telegraphy, exclu- sive, 650 to 525; aircraft radio tele phony and telegraphy, exctrsive, 525 to 500; private and toll broadcasting, exclusive, 435 to 310; restricted spe- cial amateur radio telegraphy, noh- exclusive, 310; city and state public The present development of wire-|) He was a member of Company F 80th Indiana infantry, and was in many of the most important engage ments of the war. The funeral will be held from the Methodist church on Sunday after- noon at 8 o'clock. Dr. J. M. Cromer who officiated at his wife’s funeral jvill have the sermon. The Spanish var veterans will have charge of the services and will give him a military burial. The body is being held at the Bowman mortuary. Mr. Gillespie leaves one brother and two sisters none of whom are here Also two daughters, one Miss Ada and the other Miss Nona, the latter being pastor of the Nazarene church in North Casper. The death of Mr. Gillespie marks the passing of one of the last of elvil war veterans in Casper. So far as known no more than three have resid- ed here in recent years. gas kas ees BANK ROBBERS SECURE $1,200 MADISON, Wis., March 10.—Three ‘armed bandits held up the Randall State bank here at 945 this morning government and public broadcasting, {and after attempting to lock the em- ployes in the vault, escaped with $1,- 200 im cash. Victor E. Albright, president of the ik was forced with his employes into the vault by one of the bandits while the others gathzred up available cash. After attempting to lock the door of the vault, the three men escaped BAKERFIELD, Calif., March 10.— A threatening letter received by the editor of a Taft newspaper was the latest development of supposed Ku Klux Klan activities in this county today. A letter was signed K. K. K. and addressed to A. M. Keene, edi- tor of the Midway Driller at Taft. It said: “Let this be a warning to you and to all those connected with your of- fice and your correspondence which means those who send out reports ! from the fields, EDITOR IS SENT - K.K.K. WARNING “We don’t want any more such re- ports as have been sent out and in- sist that you take unto yourselves that silence is golden. “If you do not heed this warning we will be compelled to deal with you as wo have dealt with others.” A. special session of the Kern county grand jury was to be con- vened today in Bakersfield to in- vestigate recent disturban on the west side. At the office of Sheriff D. B. Newell, wi 1 that 20 subpoenas had been served. — Ee —— ——— :